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There was a minor battle last night.

We Ithacans didn’t take part.

It seems General Thoas has been working on some sort of plan that involves digging tunnels or holes near the Trojan walls.

I am not sure if Thoas intended to sneak under the walls, collapse them, or just to create some kind of place where we can hide soldiers close to the city. However, come to think of it, the third option might have worked well with our Wooden Horse plan. -Maybe that was the objective.

I really wish these things were communicated. Nonetheless, it doesn’t seem to matter now.

I guess Thoas and the Thessalonian General Euryplus had been working together on this hole-digging project for the last few weeks.

Last night their digging crew was discovered by a small band of Trojans.

Generally the Trojans don’t patrol our side of the city after dark. Over time, the unspoken arrangement between the Trojan and Achaean armies has been that at night, we patrol south of the city and they patrol to the north. Thus, the current thinking is that Thoas and Euryplus were inadvertently stumbled-upon by a Trojan raiding party.

Whatever the case may be, the digging troop found themselves outnumbered and ill-prepared.

Notably, the Trojans that happed upon them were lead by a Mysian general also named ‘Euryplus’.

Although it would have made for a good story, it doesn’t appear the two Euryplus’s fought one another.

However, in the scuffle that took place, the Trojan Euryplus did kill Nireus, our best-looking Achaean.

Nireus was a good friend of General Thoas. He wasn’t much of a fighter, but he was well-liked and looked as if he descended from Mt. Olympus. -The women were crazy about him.

In fact, those who are apt to listen to Calchas believe Nireus had some of Zeus’ blood in him.

Whatever the case may be, it doesn’t seem Olympus was looking out for Nireus last night. From what I heard, he had been drinking, and had decided to accompany Thoas at the last minute. It seems Nireus didn’t even bother to armor himself. -The first sign of the Trojan's presence was a javelin in his back.

In addition to Nireus, Thoas and Euryplus lost about a dozen men.

Early this morning, we watched a large Trojan contingent marching about the plain, discovering and destroying most of the work Thoas and Euryplus had accomplished.

No doubt the Trojans are going to be a bit wary for a while.

Later today, Eumelus stopped by and told me that Agamemnon wants to meet with the army’s commanders tomorrow.